• Overcoming organizational challenges to advance equity

    Event Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 - 12:00
    Event Type: Learning Events
    Internal/External: Community Event
    Time: 12-1 pm
    Cost: Free
    Event description:

    The National Collaborating Centre for the Determinants of Health is launching their fourth and final COVID-19 Conversation Series, Shifting worldviews: Stories about advancing equity and justice, in October 2023. 

    Story 2: Overcoming organizational challenges to advance equity

    In this session, we will hear from organizations who have collaborated in Belleville, Ontario to create and sustain a drop-in centre. We will hear about insights from these partnerships and relationships, and ways in which these organizations have been able to overcome barriers like uncertainty, fear and risk aversion.    

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  • Climate Action for Non-Profit Leaders

    Event Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 13:00
    Event Type: Learning Events
    Internal/External: Community Event
    Time: 1:00 - 2:30 pm
    Cost: $120 per session
    Event description:

    This 4-week online program with live sessions runs on Thursdays, from 1:00-2:30 pm, October 26 through November 9, 2023. 

    Addressing complex global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, and inequality and injustice can feel impossible for individual actors and organizations, and it can be hard to know where to begin. This program aims to explore the interconnected nature of these challenges and provide systematic and accessible methods for leaders to contribute solutions through the work of their organizations.

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  • Rethinking Patient Safety Webinar

    Event Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 - 12:00
    Event Type: Learning Events
    Internal/External: Community Event
    Time: 12-1 pm
    Cost: Free
    Event description:

    #Canadian Patient Safety Week 2023 takes place October 23-27

    What does patient safety mean to you?

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  • IFIC Canada Virtual Community Care

    Event Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 - 12:00
    Event Type: Learning Events
    Internal/External: Community Event
    Time: 12-1:30 pm
    Cost: Free
    Event description:

    What is the relationship between integrated care and patient/caregiver engagement? How can engagement with our communities and people with lived healthcare experiences inform and improve integrated systems of care? Join us for a thought-provoking panel to learn about current practices and future directions. Learn from researchers, system leaders and patient perspectives with International and Canadian experience.

    We look forward to continuing to bring our community together to learn and have an impact.

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  • London & Region FASD Conference 2023 | Breaking Stigma: Supporting Success in a Complex World

    Event Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 - 08:30
    Event Type: Learning Events
    Internal/External: Community Event
    Time: October 24 & 25 | 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
    Cost: $35-140
    Event description:

    #Participate in virtual learning, including:

    • Current FASD research findings & implications
    • Strategies for evidence-based treatment
    • Interactive knowledge exchange during a choice of educational workshops
    • Regional resources, supports, & services for families & individuals with FASD
    • Compelling personal accounts of lived experiences
    • Opportunities to meet & build relationships with passionate & informed experts & advocates

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  • AGE-WELL Annual Conference - The Future of Healthy Aging

    Event Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 - 00:00
    Event Type: Learning Events
    Internal/External: Community Event
    Time: October 24 & 25
    Cost: Early bird pricing available until September 8
    Event description:

    The AGE-WELL Annual Conference is an annual event that brings together stakeholders who set the agenda for the future of technology and aging. Register by September 8 for early-bird prices.

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  • 4th Annual London & Region FASD Conference

    Event Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 - 00:00
    Event Type: Learning Events
    Internal/External: Community Event
    Time: October 24 & 25, 2023
    Cost: $35 - 140
    Event description:

    The London & Region FASD Conference Committee will be virtually hosting their 4th Annual London & Region FASD Conference on October 24 & 25, 2023

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  • Canadian Patient Safety Week 2023

    Event Date: Monday, October 23, 2023 - 07:00
    Event Type:
    Internal/External: Community Event
    Time: October 23-27
    Cost: Free
    Event description:

    #Overview

    Small changes. Big impact. Safer care.

    Join Healthcare Excellence Canada, October 23-27, to explore a new approach to safer care and how we can all make an even bigger difference every day.

    Change doesn’t have to be overwhelming—let’s start with a week of important conversations

    Too many people experience unintended physical and psychological harms, including those caused by culturally unsafe care.

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  • Project Launch: Social Prescribing for Youth Wellness Hub

    Event Date: Friday, October 20, 2023 - 11:30
    Event Type: CHWW/CHWM
    Internal/External: Community Event
    Time: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
    Cost: Free
    Event description:

    #Combatting Isolation and Empowering Human Connection Through Social Prescribing

    Access Alliance is excited to host a Human Connection Event during Ontario's Community Health and Wellness Week at AccessPoint on Danforth.

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  • The 3rd Annual Canadian Children, Youth and Communities (CCYC) Health In | Equity Conference

    Event Date: Friday, October 20, 2023 - 09:00
    Event Type:
    Internal/External:
    Time: 9am - 5pm
    Cost: $49 - $255
    Event description:

    The Canadian Children, Youth and Communities (CCYC) In | Equity Conference is an interdisciplinary conference designed to bring together pediatric health and allied health care professionals to address health care inequities from birth to adolescence using a family-centred approach.

    This conference explores health equity topics specific to marginalized communities in the Canadian health care system and offers approaches that can be implemented to address barriers in accessing healthcare for under serviced, high-risk and economically disadvantaged children and youth.

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